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more about #lawenforcement more comments → fuchikoma: I'm glad I don't have a GPS phone... not that cels couldn't always be triangulated by the carrier already, but now it's trivial, and even the first GP... more » The5thElephant: Am I the only one who thinks the whole obsession over privacy on the internet is primarily a symptom of the pre-internet generation still being alive?... more » Xagest: Hey, if they want to browse through my Fleshbot history, they're free to do so. more » something_unique_and_descriptive: And you think it's just a coincidence that the government is essentially subsidizing Sprint's existence through contracts? more » Elvisisdead: OK - former Fed here. You can't just submit a request. You have to have a judge issue a wiretap order before you can get any of this information. It's... more » Die Fledermaus: Well I guess I am sort of glad I ditched Sprint for another evil cellular company, which probably does the same. I guess it is time to put the tin foi... more » Bertone77: Heres a question: if you have a phone without GPS functionality can you still be accurately tracked? I have a friend who is a cop, he said if you cal... more » FriarNurgle: I got nothing to hide... honest Anyone know of any good no contract pay as you go phones. more » Mikestan: I wonder how bad AT&T is with this stuff. My iPhone ain't looking so good to me right now. more » Segador: Don't most cellphones have an option to disallow this in the firmware? more » PridgNYC: How would this work with front wheel drive cars which don't have exposed driveshafts? more » EBone: Love how they're testing this thing out back behind the warehouse, right next to the loading dock for where some sap's parked his boat and the Ethel M... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: And the second part they need to work on is a way of preventing the vehicle from swerving around this device.. more » Brian Richards: Yeah, no way you can swerve around that or anything. They are going to have to make it so that it can cover the whole width of the road. A little disc... more » incubushead: According to the article this is actually called the SQUID, which aims to correct some of the problems with the VLAD system. kthxbai more » -
#privacy
Sprint to Humans: We Know Where You Are, and So Do the Police
In the last year alone, Sprint turned over users' GPS data to authorities 8 million times. While that number is misleadingly high—this could translate to under a thousand individual users—it's still terrifying. But wait, it gets even better! More » -
#vehicles
VLAD Uses Sticky Tentacles to Stop a Car Whether the Driver Likes it or Not
Sometimes, you need to stop a moving vehicle and you don't want to smash it into a wall. Enter VLAD: a device that fires out a sticky web to stop vehicles in their tracks. More »
